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Richard Zavala likes Tandy Hills

As Director of the City of Fort Worth’s Parks and Community Services Department I’m pleased to recognize and lend my support to the Friends of Tandy Hills Natural Area for the North Texas Giving Day. Our public/private partnership to benefit the municipally-owned Tandy Hills and Stratford Natural Areas has been especially fruitful, and your generosity on September 18th will foster many more successful project collaborations into the future.

– Richard Zavala, Director
City of Fort Worth, Parks and Community Services Department

Richard knows the importance of partnerships with "Friends" groups to preserve and enhance the quality of life for all. Your donations in support of Friends of Tandy Hills Natural Area on North Texas Giving Day will help us "keep it like it was." Mark your calendar for September 18.

This is our first year to participate in the fund and profile-raising event called North Texas Giving Day. On September 17, 2015 from 6 a.m. until midnight, each donation of $25 and above made through our page on the North Texas Giving Day website will receive bonus funds and prizes which means that your tax deductible donation to Friends of Tandy Hills on Giving Day will go further.

Your donations to Friends of Tandy Hills are vital. There are no paid staff members in our nonprofit organization. All donations fund conservation and education initiatives. Where specifically do your donations go?

transportation to and from Tandy Hills Natural Area for 250 4th graders from area schools annually,

field journals tailored to the local Cross Timbers prairie and aligned to Texas State and National science standards,

onsite outdoor facilities,

water, snacks, and lunches for the kids, teachers and bus drivers.

Our long term goal of restoring the land itself via the Master Plan. These goals include:

critically needed removal of invasive species,

trail maintenance and creation,

construction of a visitors center.

We hope you agree that Tandy Hills is a North Texas jewel, and that Friends of Tandy Hills plays a critical mission in "keeping it like it was." On Thursday, September 17, please visit FOTHNA’s page on northtexasgivingday.org anytime between 6am and midnight and click "Donate Now". Then put on your hiking boots, grab your water bottle and come, take a hike in our rare prairie remnant. Just east of downtown Fort Worth, Texas.

"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself."